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What a surprise that Google actually sent me a mail from USA. Is it a cheque? OMG OMG OMG!!

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Guess what? OMG OMG OMG!!!

Nothing more and nothing less, it’s just my Google Adsense PIN. Hehe… Anyway, thanks for readers that support me. Hehe

The world’s largest particle accelerator complex, Large Hadron Collider (LHC), has been switched on last couple of hours ago. It is indeed a breakthrough, not only for the involved scientists but for the people in this world as well. LHC is to recreate a similar condition which exists just after the ‘Big Bang‘. LHC is developed under CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) and it is funded with approximately 6 Billion euro (USD 9 Billion). Wow, just imagine it. Probably Google also sponsored as well.

“With great power, comes with great responsibility“

This seems extremely risky if ones goes wrong direction. It might create a mini-blackhole instead during the collisions. But some scientists say that it can be ‘easiler’ decayed.

There will be a few steps or phrases. So, once the first beam is established, the next steps, taking place later in 2008, will be to accelerate and then collide two beams. Be sure to catch more news on CERN live, or BBC radio, or Guardian’s Big Bang Article.  And video below descibes a good overview of this LHC experiment.

Yesterday, the big ‘G’ or Google just released its first public beta browser, Chrome. Currently it creates tremendous news throughout the big INTERNET. Is it going to be replacement for ‘Firefox‘? Sadly, I doubt it can happen anytime sooner. Currently this beta is only for windows, mac and linux have to wait.

Google Chrome is open source browser and just like Mozilla Firefox. It is a WebKit, open source application framework, and just like Apple Safari browser.

First impression:

• It is pretty cool to have another browser on the INTERNET.
• It is definitely a pretty lightweight browser and with simplicity layout.
• It is easy and simple to search by typing in the URL bar.
• It is pretty fast to load the web pages.

• It has no add-on or plugins supports
• Some websites have problem rendering
• No ‘Home’ button for the keyboard shortcut

Google Chrome is indeed a rip-off browser for all main browsers out there, IE7/IE8, Firefox, Opera and Safari. All the good ‘ideas’ have been taken it out and put into Google Chrome. It is kinda like ‘rojak‘ browser. From the simplicity layout, it is actually based on IE7 abit. Chrome can allow user to drag out the tab to be independent windows or other way around, this is based on Apple Safari ‘idea’. Chrome has a feature to be able to track down your most view sites and can be reload at once in a single tab, that is based on Opera ‘idea’ which is speed-dials. There are a lot of similarities. 

What’s unique about Chrome? Each tab has its own process. So whenever ones tab crashes, Google Chrome will not crash its own. There’s no other browser works in such a way. But it is a bit annoyed, see the above image. It creates chrome-babies along the way under your windows task manager.

Lastly, it is still a very early stage to judge this Chrome. The official link won’t give you the full version of installer. That’s mean you have to online to download and install at the same time. Below is the offline installer that I have found.

Downloaded a total of 364 times

I’m sure some of you have heard about google phone (GPhone) rumors. Sadly, there is not. But “they” come out with mobile related product, which is Android Platform, AKA the next mobile operating system. Google’s Sergey Brin and Steve Horowitz discuss the availability of the SDK, that it will be open source in the future, and demo applications on the Android platform.

Quite impressive, it uses OpenGL technology and best of all, open source which using Linux OS. In the demo video, it shows few couple of applications, such as google maps, sms texting and quake game running in mobile platform. The SDK is currently available for download.

Related Links:

• Android UI Screenshot
• Android Main Site
• Rumors of GPhone